Sentences with phrase «urged parents at»

«I am saying that I would urge parents at this point in time to opt out of testing,» the New York State United Teachers president said in a 2015 interview on the radio show «Capitol Pressroom.»

Last week Karen Magee, the President of the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), joined the growing opt out movement saying, «I would urge parents at this point in time to opt out of testing.»

Not exact matches

Viacom, parent of networks including MTV and Nickelodeon, launched TV ads this week urging its viewers to call customer service at cable company Spectrum ahead of a deadline that may result in a costly blackout for 16.6 million customers.

The New York Times: City Urges Requiring Consent for Jewish Rite New York City health officials proposed on Tuesday that Orthodox Jewish parents be required to sign a consent waiver before they can take part in a circumcision ritual that is believed to have led to the deaths of at least two babies in the city over the past decade.

This is a record of a child, odd and difficult from birth, in the grip of senseless obsessions, controlling the family with rigid rules and prohibitions, tearing through the house as fast and destructive as a tornado, grunting instead of talking, unresponsive to his parents» loving concern, their urging, coaxing, their vain attempts at discipline, their anger and spanking.

As the mother of a child with severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21).

In light of all that, today I'm sharing this post by blogger Karen Perry, urging parents to take kids to the playground without bringing any snacks along at all!

Sears urges parents not to expect their baby to be like another's who slept through the night at 6 weeks.

For about four years, parents and administrators at Kilmer Elementary School have urged the Chicago Board of Education to provide hot lunches for the school's 1,100 pupils, according to principal Albert Orenstein.

We urge parents to educate themselves on what carriers support baby correctly and safely and which will put baby at risk.

He is urging people to use clear definitions and look at every situation individually precisely so that parents are not wrongly blamed and so that we can all have a better understanding of how to keep the most babies alive at night.

Recognising the pain that many parents in the UK feel at any implication that they have not done the best for their baby, Unicef UK is urging the UK and devolved governments to show leadership in moving the blame for a major public health issue away from individual women, and acknowledge the collective responsibility of us all to create a supportive, enabling environment for women who want to breastfeed.

But best of all was being able to soothe my baby at my breast, mothering through breastfeeding as every instinct had urged me to do from the very first day in the hospital with Alex. I learned a whole new way of parenting through breastfeeding and La Leche League, which was a drastic improvement from the strict, punitive way that I had been parented.

But, as Black Friday approaches, one consumer advocacy group is urging Las Cruces parents and other gift givers to take a closer, more - cautious look at the toys they buy their children this holiday season.

At 10 a.m., students and parents from Middle Village Preparatory Charter School rally outside the offices of the Brooklyn Diocese to urge leaders to drop a lawsuit that could evict the charter school from its space, 310 Prospect Park W., Brooklyn.

The vote came at the end of a special meeting in the Common Council chambers that attracted hundreds of parents, community leaders and activists, all urging the board to take action against Paladino for the remarks that gained international attention.

At a rally with parents on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, Ms. Moskowitz urged the city to make space available for the new schools, and suggested that Success Academy families would go on a hunger strike if necessary.

Oladeji further called on the parents to have reading time at home as she urged companies in private sector in the state to build and donate libraries to shools and communities as part of their corporate social responsibility.

At 11 a.m., Assemblymember Ron Kim and State Senator Jose Peralta will urge parents to use the free app ParentPatrol, which can be used to tackle rising crime in New York City's public parks.

Also at 11 a.m., Brooklynites with developmental disabilities, their parents and caregivers, a bipartisan delegation of state legislators and community leaders rally to urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to ensure that direct support professionals receive a living wage, St. Francis College, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.

New York officials are urging parents to take another look at their car seats after safety checks around the state recently found that only 12 percent were properly installed.

At 1 p.m., New Yorkers with developmental disabilities, their parents and caregivers and a bipartisan delegation of state legislators rally to urge Cuomo and the state Legislature to accelerate the process and ensure that direct support professionals receive the living wage they are entitled to, state Capitol, second floor, Albany.

City Councilman Robert Jackson told the standing - room - only crowd at Thursday's meeting that he has many questions about the choice proposal and how to improve the neighborhood's schools, and he urged parents to work together to find answers rather than battling each other.

P.S. 143 parents cheered the plan and urged the city to implement a similar solution at their school.

Miller urged the hundreds of parents and educators at the emotional meeting at the Goddard Riverside Community Center on the Upper West Side to speak out against the mayor's threats in every possible venue.

At the urging of the UFT and parent advocates, Mayor Bloomberg agreed on Jan. 18 to add $ 10 million to this year's schools budget to help struggling students.

Hundreds of public school students and parents have rallied at the New York state Capitol to urge lawmakers to boost school funding and reject Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education reforms.

Mark Largent, a historian of medicine based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, urged vaccine advocates to stop portraying parents who are reluctant to immunize their children as ignorant and anti-science.

A champion in her youth, she recalls not even wanting to take part in her first yoga competition at age 9 - she had always been more interested in track and field but at the urging of her parents, she practiced yoga.

But it is mostly a master at work posing questions about the animals that we are and how we make each other feel and how we can be haunted for life by shame for who we are, who are parents are, and the animalistic actions and urges we live with.

This is shown when, on the verge of buying a modern apartment at the urging of Henry's parents (Peter Bogdanovich, Lesley Ann Warren), Henry backs out at the last minute.

Addressing the large audience of New England - area teachers and parent - activists attending the meeting at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the speakers nevertheless urged advocates of education programs for the gifted to lobby local and state officials for the expansion of gifted - education programs.

More than 60 parents boycotted that process at the urging of Parent Revolution, the Los Angeles reform group and charter - school ally that organized McKinley's effort.

HARTFORD, CT. — Students, parents and clergy will gather on the north steps of the Capitol building at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 urging state legislators not to back down from key measures in last year's education reform law (Public Act 12 - 116).

NEW YORK CITY Nearly 11,000 people have signed a petition by New York City parent Fatima Geidi to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, urging him to open a civil rights investigation into disciplinary practices at Success Academy Charter Schools.

Good Morning A huge turnout in support of school choice at Florida's state capitol on Tuesday, as Martin Luther King III and several thousand parents and children rallied to urge the state's largest teachers» union to drop a lawsuit against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship.

Many parent advocates expressed disappointment with the result after they had urged the board to follow guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics that middle schools and high schools should start at 8:30 a.m. or later.

A huge turnout in support of school choice at Florida's state capitol on Tuesday, as Martin Luther King III and several thousand parents and children rallied to urge the state's largest teachers» union to drop a lawsuit against the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship.

She urged Tucson parents to take a closer look at the school.

At the urging of a principal at another school and another parent, she decided to take the plungAt the urging of a principal at another school and another parent, she decided to take the plungat another school and another parent, she decided to take the plunge.

And Maxey urges parents to learn more about NCLB: «Parents need to educate themselves with regard to this complicated legislation, or they will be at the mercy of whoever's selling them an idea.parents to learn more about NCLB: «Parents need to educate themselves with regard to this complicated legislation, or they will be at the mercy of whoever's selling them an idea.Parents need to educate themselves with regard to this complicated legislation, or they will be at the mercy of whoever's selling them an idea.»

CPS parents from closed schools urged to call School Closings Accountability Line to report problems, lack of resources at receiving schools

According to Baluch, who urged parents and educators to call city school headquarters, the answers from North Avenue varied: administrators were told that the threshold was 95 degrees by 11 a.m.; another was told it was 10 a.m. Parents were told it was 95 degrees by noon; students who called were told that dismissal was based on temperature readings at BWI, rather than the Inner parents and educators to call city school headquarters, the answers from North Avenue varied: administrators were told that the threshold was 95 degrees by 11 a.m.; another was told it was 10 a.m. Parents were told it was 95 degrees by noon; students who called were told that dismissal was based on temperature readings at BWI, rather than the Inner Parents were told it was 95 degrees by noon; students who called were told that dismissal was based on temperature readings at BWI, rather than the Inner Harbor.

The de Blasio administration believes so strongly in its own approach that it spent a million dollars in recent months to train parents in organizing techniques and to hire people to knock on the doors of roughly 35,000 parents of students at struggling schools, to tell them about the changes and urge them to take a bigger role.

As schools grapple with how to deter underage drinking at prom and other events, some elected officials and parents in Montgomery County are urging tougher punishments for students when they are caught, such as limiting their involvement in school activities or barring them from graduation ceremonies.

NYC teachers have been warned against sharing their professional analyses of the educational appropriateness of state tests and former Chancellor Farina told parents at a private meeting in District 15 that she herself would in fact opt out in certain cases yet declined to share this with all NYC parents, despite D15 parents» strong urging that she do so.

But it's hard to fight the urge to create schools with better test scores, while at the same time placating parents demanding choice.

More than 16,000 educators, parents and policymakers have signed an online petition at Change.org in the past two weeks, urging the national parent - teachers group to adopt a set of homework guidelines that they say local schools can implement to realign homework policy and practice with research on student learning, health, and engagement.

Battle's the good one in the family, the one her parents are proud of but little do her parents know that Battle is moving cross-country at the urging of her brother Nick, who's been estranged from the family for more than four years.

As movements and activists urge potential pet parents to «adopt don't shop,» working to minimize the wasteful death of innocent animals, caring people everywhere have opted to find their furry friends at shelters and rescues rather than pet stores and breeders.